Revitalizing the Commons - Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation

Informationen zum Autor By C. A. Bowers Klappentext This book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to the current trend of economic globalization, and explains the nature of educational reforms that promote ecological sustainability, conserving of cultural and linguistic diversity, local democracy, and greater community self-sufficiency. Zusammenfassung This book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to the current trend of economic globalization! and explains the nature of educational reforms that promote ecological sustainability! conserving of cultural and linguistic diversity! local democracy! and greater community self-sufficiency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken: Education's Complicity in the Enclosure of the Commons Chapter 3 Revitalizing the Commons in the African American Communities of Detroit Chapter 4 Community-Centered Approaches to Revitalizing the Commons Chapter 5 Understanding the Commons Within the Context of Contemporary Ideologies Chapter 6 The Choice Before Us: Educational Reforms that Revitalize or Further Enclose the Commons

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• Authors: C. A. Bowers, C.a. Bowers, Chet A. Bowers
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2006
• EAN: 9780739113349
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1334-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research